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Wyong footpath race is on so Art House patrons do not get stuck in the mud
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Wyong Mayor Eaton has been an airportist ever since......well, forever really. During his time as a Wyong Councillor he has witnessed aircraft movements at Bankstown airport decline from 470,000 in 1995 to a pitiful 227,500 in 2014. He has seen Hoxton Park and Schofields airports close, but he has pressed on as an airportist, despite the evidence.
He has seen the Illawarra Regional Airport fail as a passenger airport, with Qantas pulling out in 2008, never to return. He has seen the rise and rise of Newcastle Airport from a mere...passengers in ...to ...passengers in.... and decided to compete with it. He has seen the total collapse of Cessnock Airport, with Cessnock Council having to take back control of the facility in the hope of one day breaking even. He has visited Queensland's new Wellcamp airport at Toowoomba, an airport that was going to cost $100m but ended up costing $200m and was going to set the world on fire with passenger demand, only to find it services a mere...passengers per month nearly a year down the track. He has seen Badgerys Creek International Airport get the go ahead, creating even more competition for his Eaton International airport and he has seen the North Connex get up, allowing Central Coast passengers to cut 15 minutes off their trip to Sydney Kingsford Smith or Badgerys Creek, making them reachable in an hour or so.
As an airportist Mayor Eaton decided to purchase $17m of second airport land before undertaking a single study into the viability or cost of his dream 2,600m Type 3 airport at Jilliby/Bushells Ridge, paying over double the price for the land than he could have bought it for under NSW Just Terms Compensation Act in the process.
As an airportist Mayor Eaton visited the Sunshine Coast Airport only to discover that their shorter 2480m runway and new terminal was going to cost $435m, $185m more than he budgeted for his 2600m airport in the hills behind Wyong.
Once you are an airportist there is no going back, you are their for life, a captive of your fertile but immature imagination.
Regards Laurie
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Despite wasting around $20m on the project, it appears Wyong Council's Kiar Regional Airport west of the M1 is a dead duck and Warnervale Regional Airport is finally revealed as being back on, via a slip of the computer from Wyong Council consultant Cardno.
As part of the traffic study for the "Proposed Buddhist Temple and Ancilliary Buildings", otherwise known as the Chinese Theme Park, Cardno have let slip the location of Wyong's new Regional Airport at Warnervale. The aircraft size contemplated is of 90 seat capacity or in other words B737.
The Warnervale airport (Restrictions) Act 1996 was designed by local Labor MP Paul Crittenden to protect the interests of the residents surrounding Warnervale Airport. In 1998, Wyong Council applied to the NSW Minister for Planning for a once only extension of a 1200m runway under the conditions of the Restrictions Act. Council applied for a 1,600m runway, but were knocked back by the Minister in 2001. Now it looks like Wyong Mayor Eaton has taken the area back 20 years to fight the Warnervale Regional Airport all over again.
Of course we have known for most of this year that the Kiar Airport was gone, however proof is hard to come by, with Council holding all airport discussions in confidential sessions. Apart from the Cardno Warnervale Regional Airport declaration as proof, there is also the cessation of reports on the Kiar Regional Airport from Council's "EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE". The last report on the Kiar regional Airport was in February 2015, after nearly a year of continuos reporting on the Kiar Airport's progression. Since then.....nothing!
What is the saying about dinosaurs? Or is it idealogues? Or perhaps just pure desperation.
Regards Laurie
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